Where's Waldo Bulletin BoardFor the first project, I will have all students create a self-portrait. My only rule is: no stick people! I will let the students draw themselves however they want. Next, I will collect all the self-portraits and hang them up to create the "Where's Waldo (Mrs. Egbert)?" board! Students will have had a great time looking for themselves!
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Art portfolio weekWe will be making our art portfolios. I would like to teach the students to treat the artwork respectfully. I do not want it to get stuffed into the backpack and thrown away before it even makes it home. We will create our portfolios where the art work will be stored. We will have a portfolio night at the end of the 1st semester when the students will be able to take their art work home and show it to their families.
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Line Design w/ ShadingThis is a pretty cool lesson. All you need is paper, Sharpie, and colored pencils! Start by drawing a curve line across the paper. Think rolling hill...not roller coaster! Add 8 dots across the line. They could be(should be) at different lengths apart. You need a dot at relatively close to the edges of your paper. You will then start connecting the dots. The dots close to the edge will go off the edge of the paper to an imaginary dot. You can not cross over any lines. However, you can share a line as you begin going up and out. The lines should be taken off the edge of the paper as you extend outwards. Some sections may be pinched off as other sections grow larger...and that is totally ok. The students should pick a group of colors they feel work well together. The will press harder in the corners...and as they near the center get lighter and lighter. This is a great way to get them practice with pressure control!!!
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Mona Lisa PuzzleStudents work together as a class to create a giant Mona Lisa picture. Each student s given a small square, that appeared to be an abstract arrangement of shapes and colors. It is their job to copy that square to the best of their ability onto a larger square. They try to do the best color matching, and measuring that they can. When they are done students are called up by number and we glue their squares into the proper arrangement to reveal the project they had all been working on together... the Mona Lisa!
Grade: 4th grade Time: one 60 min class Materials: 4"x4" white paper squares pencils crayons |
Koi Fish PaintingsWe will first look at PowerPoint about Koi fish and their symbolism in Asian art (both Japanese and Chinese). After getting through the background part, I will do a step-by-step koi fish drawing demo with my students on a sheet of copy paper.
Once students complete their practice drawing, I will give them a sheet of 9"x12" watercolor paper and they once again will draw a koi fish. They will use a step-by-step worksheet to leave on the table as they work. I also will play a video that I found on YouTube of koi fish swimming (View Pure version here)! That way students can see how their bodies moved in the water, some possible color choices, and other up close details. Once their pencil drawing is complete they will outline with fish with crayons and then will paint their work with watercolor paints. |
Spooky Silhouettes-Watercolor & Oil PastelMaterials: watercolor paper, pencil, eraser, Cray Pas oil pastel (white, black, and yellow), watercolor brush, water cups, Watercolors, rulers
I had everyone create a frame around the edges of the paper using the ruler. We will draw the spooky houses first. We will use the yellow oil pastel to color in the moon, and the windows. Then we will use watercolor. The results will be stunning, I'm sure! It can be easily modified for different grade levels and different mediums. Materials: watercolor paper, pencil, eraser, Cray Pas oil pastel (white, black, and yellow), watercolor brush, water cups, Watercolors, rulers. |
Sculpting- Cupcakes & Burgers
Materials: Crayola Model Magic, 3in. cardboard or chip board squares, glue, acrylic paint, paint brushes, water cups, paper towels, toothpicksLast school year was the first time I have thrown Model Magic in to my curriculum. Going class to class and not having an art room or a kiln makes clay projects a challenge. I love using model magic for sculpting and it’s much cleaner than clay and doesn’t break when being transferred around.
This is a 2 part project. 1 class sculpting and the next class to paint. I let the students choose to sculpt a cupcake or a burger. Cupcakes: We made a plate first and glued it to the cardboard, then sculpt a cylinder base, attach to the plate and roll out & coil the top for the frosting. Use the toothpick to create the ridges around the base to look like the cupcake wrapper. Add a cherry on top. Burgers: We made a plate first and glued it to the cardboard, then sculpt a short cylinder for the bottom bun, attach to the plate & then make a dome shape for the top bun, but do not attach it yet. Make the burger patty, cheese, lettuce and tomatoes, carefully layer each on the bottom bun, then add the top bun on top. Make tiny sesame seeds & add to the bun. The clay dries over night. Paint step by step with acrylic paint. |
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Fall Birch TreesMaterials: Blue or purple Cardstock, paint brush, paper towel, pencil & eraser, paint tray, water cup, small piece of chipboard, index card or thick cardstock, acrylic paint- white, grey, black, brown, red, orange, yellow
Here’s how I organize the paint on the trays or plates Start by drawing the horizon line and the tree trunk on the colored Cardstock. Paint in each tree white and add grey shading to one side. Once all three trees are painted white and grey, paint the ground brown. Then we need to add the texture to the birch trees. Dip the edge of a small piece of chip board or I’ve used index cards before, into black paint. Scape the edge starting on the grey shaded side across to the white side. Repeat until the tree is covered in texture. Using the brush add the texture of the leaves on the upper part of the paper with red, orange, yellow, brown. Add a few fallen leaves on the ground. If there’s extra time I let them add a bit of black into the brown paint to make a color for the shadows of the trees on the ground. |
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Funky Self PortraitsMaterials: solid colored Cardstock, patterned paper, white and black paper, glue sticks, scissors, pencil, crayons.
I prepped the paper ahead of time into several sizes. I cut the patterned paper into 1/2’s for the face & neck and for the hair. I cut some patterned, solid and white & black paper into 1/4’s for the details. One successful thing I did with this was to have the students choose their paper before they knew what we were doing. I had them choose a solid and 2 half sheets of the patterned and then I showed the examples of what we would be doing. They made bolder choices with the colors they chose. We cut out a head and a neck from one of the half sheets and glue it into place. Make the ears from the same paper. Then choose a few 1/4 sheets for the brows, nose and lips. The eyes I had them choose a solid for the biggest shape of the eye, a pattern for the iris, black for the pupil and then a white sparkle. Cut and glue as you go. I tried to encourage not using a pencil to draw and just using the scissors. Hair and a shirt were the last parts we added. I had crayons available for kids to draw on their glasses. These were so fun and looked amazing hanging in the classrooms. |
Van Gogh Inspired Starry NightForth graders look at the work of Vincent Van Gogh and use his famous painting "Starry Night" as inspiration for their own starry night paintings. They start by mapping out their composition with pencil. Then they use oil pastels to create textures and swirls of colors much like the style of Van Gogh. After the oil pastels they painted on top with watercolor paint.
Grade: 4th grade Time: two-three 60 min classes Materials: 9"x12" white paper pencils oil pastels watercolor paint (black, blue, purple) |
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Pumpkin sketchesI want to focus on shading in this lesson. We will create a simple pumpkin sketch, starting with an oval and going step by step through the complete pumpkin. After the sketch is done, we add the shadow and the horizon line. Then add shading on one section of the pumpkin at a time. Using our finger to smudge the pencil along the way. They will love that their pumpkins look “real”. If we have a few extra minutes we will add bats in the background.
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Holiday Value LightsFourth graders will review what they already know about value (the element of art). Afterwards they begin working on their art projects.
To begin students glue down a piece of olive green yarn to a 12"x18" piece of black paper. The only stipulations I will give them is that it should start from the left end of the paper, reach all the way to the right end, and should make some sort of interesting line (so not just a straight one). Then we put those up in the drying rack. Next students take a light bulb tracer and trace it onto a piece of 6"x18" black paper (most students traced between 4-6). Once all their bulbs are traced in pencil, they use oil pastels to outline and then color them in. Once they color them in, they use their fingers to smudge/rub in the oil pastel (this gives is a smoother, more glass-like implied texture). Then using a white oil pastel, they draw in the filament (again they could create any kind of curvy/wavy line they wanted). Once it was drawn in, they used their "tickle finger" to rub the white from their filament back-and-forth slightly into the color of the bulb (this creates a glowing effect). Then they re-outline their filaments with white again. Finally a highlight is added to the tip of their bulb with white oil pastel. The next step for students is to cut their light bulbs out and arrange them onto their larger black paper with the yarn on it. Once they are happy with the arrangement, they trace the outline of the bulb in pencil onto their black paper. To create a glowing effect on the paper, we use chalk pastel to create an outline (slightly inside the pencil line) with white and then with the color used for the bulb, and then made quick finger-strokes to spread the chalk pastel outwards. Once they are done creating the glow effect, students use a glue stick to apply glue to the back of their light bulb, and then position it on top of the chalk pastel glow. The results are simply stunning. :) |